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Lieutenant Robert Dickey wife Hannah Woodburn
Valley Cemetery, Rockingham Co NH
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ROBERT DICKEY, born 10 Feb 1748, was a man of uncommon strength of limb, and in those days when athletic exercises, running , jumping, wresting, and the various trials of muscular strength were so prominently brought into action, he excited the envy of the whole neighborhood by his stupendous power and energy as an athlete. But his love for a frequent display of the “manly art” did not prevent him from attending diligently to his domestic affairs, or to the duties of a good citizen.
10 Jun 1776, he married Hannah Woodburn, daughter of John and Mary Taggart Woodburn, who had emigrated from Ireland to Londonderry at some time previous to 1725.
Robert and Hannah settled on the southernly half of his father’s farm, which was deeded to him in 1765. He was a practical and thorough-going farmer, never afraid of hard work, or sparing of the strength that nature had so lavishly supplied him.
Although the parents [Robert & Hannah] were sober, thoughtful people, it is firmly believed that few homes could be found where the inmates, consisting of six stalwart boys and five healthy, intelligent girls, were more jovial and happy, or where more hearty merriment was experienced, than in that broad, homely kitchen and around the grand old fire-place, whose devouring flames never called in vain for fuel. The kitchen was fortunately large, and answered conveniently as a room for cooking and washing as well as for dining, and was always thought good enough for the reception of strangers. Each of the parents had a large circle of relatives, and both were famous for their hospitality, consequently their house was a natural focus for visitors at all seasons, who invariably found an abundance of rare good cheer and food enough and to spare, though it might be of the plainer sort.
Robert Dickey died 19 Jun 1805.
Dickey, John. 1898. Genealogy of the Dickey Family. Worcester, MA : Press of F.S. Blanchard, 1898. Page 20-23. Transcribed by Jody M Thompson McDonald 15 Jan 2016. Available online at http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89066045436;view=1up;seq=31;size=75
Lieutenant Robert Dickey wife Hannah Woodburn
Valley Cemetery, Rockingham Co NH
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ROBERT DICKEY, born 10 Feb 1748, was a man of uncommon strength of limb, and in those days when athletic exercises, running , jumping, wresting, and the various trials of muscular strength were so prominently brought into action, he excited the envy of the whole neighborhood by his stupendous power and energy as an athlete. But his love for a frequent display of the “manly art” did not prevent him from attending diligently to his domestic affairs, or to the duties of a good citizen.
10 Jun 1776, he married Hannah Woodburn, daughter of John and Mary Taggart Woodburn, who had emigrated from Ireland to Londonderry at some time previous to 1725.
Robert and Hannah settled on the southernly half of his father’s farm, which was deeded to him in 1765. He was a practical and thorough-going farmer, never afraid of hard work, or sparing of the strength that nature had so lavishly supplied him.
Although the parents [Robert & Hannah] were sober, thoughtful people, it is firmly believed that few homes could be found where the inmates, consisting of six stalwart boys and five healthy, intelligent girls, were more jovial and happy, or where more hearty merriment was experienced, than in that broad, homely kitchen and around the grand old fire-place, whose devouring flames never called in vain for fuel. The kitchen was fortunately large, and answered conveniently as a room for cooking and washing as well as for dining, and was always thought good enough for the reception of strangers. Each of the parents had a large circle of relatives, and both were famous for their hospitality, consequently their house was a natural focus for visitors at all seasons, who invariably found an abundance of rare good cheer and food enough and to spare, though it might be of the plainer sort.
Robert Dickey died 19 Jun 1805.
Dickey, John. 1898. Genealogy of the Dickey Family. Worcester, MA : Press of F.S. Blanchard, 1898. Page 20-23. Transcribed by Jody M Thompson McDonald 15 Jan 2016. Available online at http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89066045436;view=1up;seq=31;size=75
From SAR website-
Lieutenant Robert Dickey wife Hannah Woodburn
Valley Cemetery, Rockingham Co NH
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ROBERT DICKEY, born 10 Feb 1748, was a man of uncommon strength of limb, and in those days when athletic exercises, running , jumping, wresting, and the various trials of muscular strength were so prominently brought into action, he excited the envy of the whole neighborhood by his stupendous power and energy as an athlete. But his love for a frequent display of the “manly art” did not prevent him from attending diligently to his domestic affairs, or to the duties of a good citizen.
10 Jun 1776, he married Hannah Woodburn, daughter of John and Mary Taggart Woodburn, who had emigrated from Ireland to Londonderry at some time previous to 1725.
Robert and Hannah settled on the southernly half of his father’s farm, which was deeded to him in 1765. He was a practical and thorough-going farmer, never afraid of hard work, or sparing of the strength that nature had so lavishly supplied him.
Although the parents [Robert & Hannah] were sober, thoughtful people, it is firmly believed that few homes could be found where the inmates, consisting of six stalwart boys and five healthy, intelligent girls, were more jovial and happy, or where more hearty merriment was experienced, than in that broad, homely kitchen and around the grand old fire-place, whose devouring flames never called in vain for fuel. The kitchen was fortunately large, and answered conveniently as a room for cooking and washing as well as for dining, and was always thought good enough for the reception of strangers. Each of the parents had a large circle of relatives, and both were famous for their hospitality, consequently their house was a natural focus for visitors at all seasons, who invariably found an abundance of rare good cheer and food enough and to spare, though it might be of the plainer sort.
Robert Dickey died 19 Jun 1805.
Dickey, John. 1898. Genealogy of the Dickey Family. Worcester, MA : Press of F.S. Blanchard, 1898. Page 20-23. Transcribed by Jody M Thompson McDonald 15 Jan 2016. Available online at http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89066045436;view=1up;seq=31;size=75
Lieutenant Robert Dickey wife Hannah Woodburn
Valley Cemetery, Rockingham Co NH
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ROBERT DICKEY, born 10 Feb 1748, was a man of uncommon strength of limb, and in those days when athletic exercises, running , jumping, wresting, and the various trials of muscular strength were so prominently brought into action, he excited the envy of the whole neighborhood by his stupendous power and energy as an athlete. But his love for a frequent display of the “manly art” did not prevent him from attending diligently to his domestic affairs, or to the duties of a good citizen.
10 Jun 1776, he married Hannah Woodburn, daughter of John and Mary Taggart Woodburn, who had emigrated from Ireland to Londonderry at some time previous to 1725.
Robert and Hannah settled on the southernly half of his father’s farm, which was deeded to him in 1765. He was a practical and thorough-going farmer, never afraid of hard work, or sparing of the strength that nature had so lavishly supplied him.
Although the parents [Robert & Hannah] were sober, thoughtful people, it is firmly believed that few homes could be found where the inmates, consisting of six stalwart boys and five healthy, intelligent girls, were more jovial and happy, or where more hearty merriment was experienced, than in that broad, homely kitchen and around the grand old fire-place, whose devouring flames never called in vain for fuel. The kitchen was fortunately large, and answered conveniently as a room for cooking and washing as well as for dining, and was always thought good enough for the reception of strangers. Each of the parents had a large circle of relatives, and both were famous for their hospitality, consequently their house was a natural focus for visitors at all seasons, who invariably found an abundance of rare good cheer and food enough and to spare, though it might be of the plainer sort.
Robert Dickey died 19 Jun 1805.
Dickey, John. 1898. Genealogy of the Dickey Family. Worcester, MA : Press of F.S. Blanchard, 1898. Page 20-23. Transcribed by Jody M Thompson McDonald 15 Jan 2016. Available online at http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89066045436;view=1up;seq=31;size=75
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